Comrade Bagayev!

I thank you with all my heart for your greetings and kind wishes. I apologize that due to illness I cannot arrange a meeting. I request that you contact Comrade Sverdlov.

I ask you to convey to the Astrakhan Cossack comrades my very best wishes and greetings.

Moscow. 25/IX. 1918.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

from the manuscript

First published in 1942

in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from a photocopy